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James Richard "Rick" Perry (born March 4, 1950) is the 47th and current Governor of Texas. A Republican, Perry was elected Lieutenant Governor of Texas in 1998 and assumed the governorship in December 2000 when then-governor George W. Bush resigned to become President of the United States. Perry was elected to full gubernatorial terms in 2002, 2006 and 2010. With a tenure in office to date of 10 years, 237 days, Perry is the longest continuously serving current U.S. governor, and the second longest serving current U.S. governor after Terry Branstad of Iowa. Perry served as Chairman of the Republican Governors Association in 2008 (succeeding Sonny Perdue of Georgia) and again in 2011. Perry is the longest-serving governor in Texas state history. As a result, he is the only governor ...

On a tour to publicize his new book, Texas Governor Rick Perry blasted New Deal-type policies and took the opportunity to call for the repeal of ObamaCare and likened Social Security to a ponzi scheme, especially for our nation’s youth.
“I want people to be afraid not to talk about that Social Security is bankrupt and is a Ponzi scheme and if you’ve got a young 20-something-year-old, they know for a fact that they’re not ever going to see that,” he said. “So let’s fix it.”
Speaking at a Bar-B-Que restaurantin San Antonio, Perry also ...

Texas Gov. Rick Perry has some advice for likely GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney: renounce health care reform.
As governor of Massachusetts,Romney implemented a health care mandate similar to the overhaul law signed into law by President Obama in March. The Bay State has experienced many problems, including people avoiding paying penalties for not having insurance by purchasing plans for only three or four months out of the year.
“The health care plan out of Massachusetts, I will suggest to you, is too much like the health care plan that was passed in Washington,” ...

It's never too early to begin the horse-race punditry on the 2012 presidential race, and National Journal has taken on the job.
They've published their rankings of who's likely to get the GOP nod, and -- in what's good news for America but bad for Texas -- Rick Perry comes in a feeble 11th.
Maybe everyone just believes him when he says he doesn't want the job?
NJ puts Perry in the "Governor/VP/`16" tier. which means there's still plenty to be scared shitless about, it just might be a little further down the road.
In that tier, he's behind Mitch Daniels of Indiana and Chris Christie ...